Ree'eta 2.0

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Ree'eta is my analytic language. This is actually 3.0 or 4.0 version of the language, but I only found one Ree'eta before on the forum, so let this one be Ree'eta 2.0

Consonants:

Affricates: t͡ɬ t͡θ t͡s k͡ʟ̥ k͡x *c͡ɕ <tł tþ ts kł kx ks>
Plosives: p t k ʔ <p t k '>
Fricatives: f ɬ θ s ʟ̥ x *ɕ h <f ł þ s łg x sg h>
"Nasal affricates": mṼ nṼ ŋṼ <mf nþ nx>
Nasals: m n ŋ <m n ng>
Approximants: ʋ l ɹ z̞ ʟ ɣ ʑ̞ <v l r z lg g zg>

* The palatals appear only before front vowels. Velars have a palatal allophone before them too.

Vowels:
i ɯ u <i y u>
e ɘ o <i̩ y̩ u̩>
ɛ ʌ ɔ <e a o>
a ɑ ɒ <e̩ a̩ o̩>

All vowels can appear with one of three phonations: breathy voice <Vh>, modal voice <V>, and creaky voice <Vc>.


Phonotaxis:

Syllables are either CV or CVV.

All vowels can also be long, which is marked by doubling the letter.
Diphthongs may also appear, I'm not sure what they are.

There are three tones: mid <a>, high <á>, and low <à>. They are grammatical and appear on vowel units.

I think that phonations and tones have some effect of each other, but I don't know yet what.
Floating tones might also appear.

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Morphology:

There are three morphological classes: lexical verbs, derived verbs, and nouns and infinites.

Verbs:
Verbs do not have a lexical tone.
They have inflection of same subject (SS) and different subject (DS). Ree'eta is rather a topic prominent language, so the concept of subject isn't the best one. Same subject forms have the low tone <à>, and different subject forms have the high tone <á>. A verb without a tone is infinite. I'm not sure how its semantics will be.

Nouns:
Nouns have a lexical tone. So there are minim pairs like tá, ta, tà. The tone is marked on the first vowel: <táa, taa, tàa>.

Derived verbs:
Verbs can be derived from nouns by adding a tone of SS or DS before the lexical tone of the noun. Short vowels lengthen in the process. The mid tone assimilates with the following tone.
tá + DS -> táá (high), tá + SS -> táà (falling)
ta + DS -> taá (high), ta + SS -> taà (low)
tà + DS -> tàá (rising), tà+ SS -> tàà (low)

Derived verbs cannot be made infinite.

Semantics of verb derivation is not transparent, but derived verbs usually mean 'use X' or 'be like X'.

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Syntax

Ree'eta is a topic-prominent language. The word order is
[NP [N]] [VP [V][N]] ([VP [V][N]])

There can be several VPs in one sentence with one topic. VPs always begin with the verb.

If the verb has SS marking, it has the topic as its main argument. If it has DS marking, it takes some other argument from the earlier VPs as its first argument.

Kxý.-nò.o. p`y say, xè ksàa
Kingdom-ruler build-SS house, give.SS god
'The king built a house and gave it to the god.'

The same semantics could be expresses:

Kxý.-nò.o. p`y say, xé ksàa
Kingdom-ruler buildSS house, give.DS god
'The king built a house and it was given to the god.'

These kinds of sentences resemble paragraphs.

I'm considering if the role of the topic/subject of a verb could be encoded in the verb - a kind of voice or trigger system. But I'm not sure if my morphology has resources for it. Maybe phonations could have that function?